Fifth Class News

This month we will be learning about a variety of American peoples - civilisations from South, Central and North Americas. Earlier this week we read an excerpt from the novel 'The Long March', in which we learned about a real event in history.The members of the Choctaw tribe, having heard about the Potato Famine that was taking place in Ireland at the time, met to discuss whether to make a donation to the starving Irish people. Since we have been working on persuasive writing, we had a debate about it. We raised points both for and against the motion, and finally took a vote as to whether to help the Irish.